Lessons from fraxinus, a crowd-sourced citizen science game in genomics

eLife

Volumn 4, Issue JULY 2015, 2015, Pages

  Rallapalli, Ghanasyam ^a,g   Players, Fraxinus ^a,b   Saunders, Diane Go ^a,c,d   Yoshida, Kentaro ^a   Edwards, Anne ^c   Lugo, Carlos A ^a   Collin, Steve ^e   Clavijo, Bernardo ^d   Corpas, Manuel ^d   Swarbreck, David ^d   Clark, Matthew ^d   Downie, J Allan ^c   Kamoun, Sophien ^a   Cooper, Team ^f   Maclean, Dan ^a  

^a SAINSBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b FACEBOOK   (United States)

^c JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d EARLHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^e Bewick House   (United Kingdom)

^f Coopermatic Ltd Team Cooper ^*  (United Kingdom)

^g KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FRAXINUS GAME; FUNGUS; GAME; GENE LIBRARY; GENE MAPPING; GENOMICS; HYMENOSCYPHUS FRAXINEUS; KENNINGHALL WOOD1; NONHUMAN; RNA ISOLATION; RNA SEQUENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; WOOD; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENGLAND; FRAXINUS; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

FRAXINUS;

FUNGAL DNA;

COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, FUNGAL; ENGLAND; FRAXINUS; PLANT DISEASES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84938373931     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.07460     Document Type: Article

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